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Garry Riggs (Part 4) - Mercenaries and mid-air emergencies
Central Station - True Stories from Outback Australia - July 01, 2024 15:30 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsWelcome back to our fourth episode with Garry Riggs from Lakefield Station in the Territory. When we last left Garry, he had just wrapped up his time in the stock camp at Blina Station. But the end of one chapter marked the beginning of another. Garry found himself working in mining exploration,...
Garry Riggs (Part 3) - Blina and Calwynyardah adventures
Central Station - True Stories from Outback Australia - June 17, 2024 15:30 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsWelcome back to our third episode with Garry Riggs from Lakefield Station in the Territory. In his first two episodes, Garry shared tales from his adventurous childhood, filled with close calls involving snakes, motorbikes, horses, motorcars, deadly fevers, UFOs, and even circus lions! In this...
Munro Hardy (Part 4) - A licence to learn
Central Station - True Stories from Outback Australia - June 03, 2024 08:05 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsWhen Munro Hardy said he wanted to be a pilot, his year 11 careers advisor shut down the idea pretty quickly. So, Munro filed the idea in the back of his mind and started thinking about other options. Once he finished school, he set off on a gap year that would turn into the adventure of a lifet...
Ashley Dowden - Triumph after tragedy [Repost]
Central Station - True Stories from Outback Australia - May 10, 2024 07:38 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsOne moment can change your entire life. Ashley Dowden learnt that lesson at age 11, when he survived an accident that claimed his mothers life and left his father with one arm. Ashley’s childhood was cut short as he stepped up to support his father in running the family sheep station. In ...
Pip Bain (Part 2) - Taking the long way around [Repost]
Central Station - True Stories from Outback Australia - April 15, 2024 15:30 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsThe first year out of school is equally exciting and terrifying – you’re considered an adult by society, and with that comes both freedoms and responsibilities. With her high school experience not being the best, and her first job on a station getting off to a rocky start, Pip Bain felt like s...
Pip Bain (Part 1) - Memories of my mother & Mt Clere Station [Repost]
Central Station - True Stories from Outback Australia - April 08, 2024 15:30 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsThe time we spend with people and places doesn’t determine the impact they can have on our lives. That is so very true for todays guest, Pip Bain. Although her family sold Mt Clere Station when she was just 8 years old, those 8 short years shaped Pips life and love of the land. The same goes f...
Nick Ormsby - Self made
Central Station - True Stories from Outback Australia - April 01, 2024 15:30 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsNick Ormsby has flipped the script on what it means to be a "high school dropout". Despite leaving school at just 14 and having his teachers tell him he'd never make it, Nick's proved them dead wrong. Now, before he's even hit 40, Nick's running the show with not one, not two, but three compan...
Paddy Heatley (Part 1) - A story like no other
Central Station - True Stories from Outback Australia - March 25, 2024 15:30 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsPaddy Heatley had a fairly unconventional childhood. By the time he left home at the age of 9, he’d already dropped out of school – foregoing learning to read and write. At the age of 12, he was smuggling tobacco, alcohol and cattle from South to North Ireland. And, at the age of 16, with his mo...
Paddy Heatley - A story like no other
Central Station - True Stories from Outback Australia - March 25, 2024 15:30 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsPaddy Heatley had a fairly unconventional childhood. By the time he left home at the age of 9, he’d already dropped out of school – foregoing learning to read and write. At the age of 12, he was smuggling tobacco, alcohol and cattle from South to North Ireland. And, at the age of 16, with his mo...
Tammy Kruckow - A hard lesson to learn
Central Station - True Stories from Outback Australia - March 12, 2024 06:15 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsFrom the outside looking in, Tammy Kruckow was living her best life. She and her husband were managing a large cattle station for a corporate pastoral company – the perfect place to raise their three beautiful daughters. She had, as she puts it, "ticked all the boxes". But, behind closed door...
Col Greenfield - Life inside the Woomera Prohibited Area, and outside the Dog Fence [Repost]
Central Station - True Stories from Outback Australia - March 04, 2024 11:54 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsIn this episode, Steph travels to the centre of South Australia to Billa Kalina Station, which has been in the Greenfield family since 1938. Pastoralist Col Greenfield shares what it's like running a cattle station that is inside the Woomera Prohibited Area, and outside the dog fence. *T...
Felicity Brown - Tales from a 1990's stockcamp [Repost]
Central Station - True Stories from Outback Australia - February 26, 2024 15:30 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsFelicity Brown is a milliner whose work has been featured at New York Fashion Week not once, but three times. Twenty years before the bright lights of the big apple called her name, Flic was working in a stock camp in the Northern Territory. In this episode Flic reflects on her time working ...
Wayne Bean (Part 3) - A change of career and time for horses
Central Station - True Stories from Outback Australia - February 19, 2024 15:30 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsWayne Bean spent his adult life working towards one goal - managing a cattle station. So, when he resigned from his job as the manager at Flora Valley Station after 14 years, for the first time in his life, he didn’t have a plan. This episode is the third and final part of our chat with Wayne,...
Wayne Bean (Part 2) - The Heytesbury years
Central Station - True Stories from Outback Australia - February 12, 2024 15:30 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsThis episode is part 2 of our chat with Wayne Bean – if you haven’t listened to Part 1, you know the drill, go on, go back and listen to it first. In this episode Wayne recalls the 18 years he spent working for Heytesbury Pastoral, where he progressed from an overseer on the Barkly, to junior ...
Wayne Bean (Part 1) - Just trying to get ahead
Central Station - True Stories from Outback Australia - February 05, 2024 15:30 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsFor the longest time, Wayne Bean just wanted to get ahead. To achieve his career goal of managing a cattle station, to have his own land, and the time to pursue his passion for horses. And, spoiler alert, he has, by all definitions, gotten ahead. After two decades of managing stations for Heyt...
Willie Cook (Part 2) - Filming "Outback Ringer", and facing an uncertain future head on
Central Station - True Stories from Outback Australia - January 29, 2024 15:30 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsThis is Part 2 of our chat with Willie Cook. If you haven’t listened to Part 1, go back and listen to it first – trust me – you don’t want to listen to these episodes back to front – and yes, I know some of you do that… In this episode, Willie shares what it was really like being filmed for th...
Willie Cook (Part 1) - Catching Wild Bulls & Water Buffalo 101
Central Station - True Stories from Outback Australia - January 22, 2024 15:30 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsWillie Cook is known for being the bull-catching, helicopter-flying Kiwi from the ABC tv series “Outback Ringer”. He first came on the podcast in 2022, when he shared the incredible story of how the 2008 Global Financial Crisis saw his family lose absolutely everything they had, resulting in m...
Toni Tapp Coutts - Bill Tapp, The Cattle King
Central Station - True Stories from Outback Australia - January 15, 2024 15:30 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsBill Tapp wanted to be the next Cattle King of Australia, and for a time he was. In this episode, Toni Tapp Coutts shares the story of a man who was a pioneer, a visionary, a dreamer. A man who turned Killarney Station from a bare block to one of several thriving cattle properties. But, as h...
Caroline Ashby - Training for Ironman Triathlons in the Outback
Central Station - True Stories from Outback Australia - January 08, 2024 15:30 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsCaroline Ashby is one of Australia’s toughest athletes. She’s completed 10 Ironman triatholan events, qualifying for the World Championships 4 times, and been ranked in the top 1% of Ironman athletes across the world several times. Caroline has accomplished all of this while raising a family...
Toni Tapp Coutts - Shaped by the Territory
Central Station - True Stories from Outback Australia - December 25, 2023 15:30 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsBorn and raised in the Northern Territory, Toni Tapp Coutts has had a varied career, from working on cattle stations, to owning a variety store in Borroloola, a dress boutique in Katherine, being a Town Councillor, CEO, Author, and most recently becoming a Real Estate agent. Not to mention, she ...
Connie Wood - When it's not "just a bump on the head"
Central Station - True Stories from Outback Australia - December 18, 2023 15:30 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsWhen Connie Wood came off her horse and knocked her head, she initially thought not much of it. She hadn’t been doing anything particularly wild or dangerous in the moments leading up to the fall, it was just like any other day on her quiet, dependable horse. What Connie would go on to experie...
Hamish & Jodie McTaggart - The catastrophic Christmas flood of 2010 [Repost]
Central Station - True Stories from Outback Australia - December 12, 2023 08:06 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 4 ratings[Reposted episode, recorded in 2021] In December 2010, Jodie and Hamish McTaggart were looking forward to the chance to sit back and relax for a few days. The family property, Bidgemia Station, was in the worst drought on record, and the newlyweds had been working flat out all year to look aft...
Garry Riggs (Part 2) - Snakes, Lions, and a UFO in the Kimberley
Central Station - True Stories from Outback Australia - December 05, 2023 11:53 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsIn our last episode, Garry Riggs shared yarns from his early days growing up on cattle stations in the 60’s and 70’s. This episode is the second part of that conversation, and let’s just say I was not expecting to hear about lions, or UFO’s… but, as we heard in part 1 – Garry’s childhood was any...
Garry Riggs (Part 1) - The adventures (and misadventures) of a bush kid
Central Station - True Stories from Outback Australia - November 27, 2023 16:30 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsStation kids aren’t regular kids. What I mean, is that they are, more often than not, fiercely independent and impressively resourceful. And that is a recipe for adventure. Garry Riggs is no exception here. He spent his childhood on remote properties across Northern Australia, with the sort of...
Ned McCord - First aid for a lightning strike
Central Station - True Stories from Outback Australia - November 20, 2023 22:11 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsWhen Ned McCord was a little boy, all he wanted to do was be among the stockmen working cattle. And for the most part, that was his reality, until his father experienced a serious and debilitating illness which saw the family separated, and Ned sent to a town school. He eventually made his w...
Tony Williams - Life, love and loss on the Oodnadatta Track [Repost]
Central Station - True Stories from Outback Australia - November 13, 2023 12:58 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsTony Williams left home at the age of 16 to work on Nilpinna Station for his childhood idol Jimmy Nunn. That was almost 50 years ago. Today, Tony is in his 40th year as the manager of Mt Barry Station, near the town of Coober Pedy in SA. In this episode, he shares yarns from the past 5 decades...
Aticia Grey - The road to Pilbara Working Dogs
Central Station - True Stories from Outback Australia - October 26, 2023 07:43 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsAticia Grey is best known for her team of working dogs and their adventures on her family’s cattle station in the Pilbara region of WA. Given her cult following on social media, appearance on the ABC’s tv show “Muster Dogs” and release of a book by the same name, you’d be forgiven for thinking...
Darrylin Gordon - The long road to Lamboo [Repost]
Central Station - True Stories from Outback Australia - October 03, 2023 10:46 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsLamboo Station is unlike any of the other cattle station’s we’ve spoken about on this podcast. Located just south of Halls Creek in the Kimberley region, Lamboo is owned by the Ngunjiwirri Aboriginal Corporation (NAC) on behalf of the Jaru people. The property was purchased in 1994 by the (the...
Stu Barker and Brett Otley - Working with feral animals
Central Station - True Stories from Outback Australia - September 18, 2023 16:30 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsWelcome to a special bonus episode. For those of you who don’t know, I am due to have my first child in July – so by the time you’re listening to this, I’ll be well and truly knee deep in nappies! Before I go on maternity leave, I decided to make hay while the sun shines, and I teamed up wit...
Danny Hayes (Part 2) - The luckiest man alive?
Central Station - True Stories from Outback Australia - September 13, 2023 10:53 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsIn our last episode, Danny Hayes shredd yarns from his childhood on cattle stations and some of the things he's learned from his 30 year career as a mustering pilot. In this episode, Danny recounts some of the hairy situations he's found himself in while flying - situations that only experience ...
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